
Dr. Patrice Rankine is an internationally sought after, award-winning teacher, scholar and academic leader.
Recent Blog Posts
In the midst of the national discussions regarding when our cities will be able to reopen, forty-six of the fifty having had some form of stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order, Danielle Allen wrote another opinion piece for The Washington Post. The first sentence of the piece reveals…
Classics and Classical Receptions
"Ulysses in Black is a powerful and pioneering study that creatively links the rich traditions of classical antiquity to contemporary black thought. I highly recommend it."—Cornel West, Princeton University
Interviews and Videos
“For me, Reception became a vehicle for being able to wed all that I knew as a Classicist and what I was through my personal experiences as an undergraduate in Brooklyn…There’s this sense that there’s a hierarchy of values and there’s a backlash out there against people who are doing work that calls attention to the Classics as the domain of everyone.”
— “Classics, Black Classicism and the Portals of Disciplines: A Conversation with Prof. Patrice Rankine”